S CHOLASTIC ELT READERS A FREE RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS! INCA MUMMY GIRL –EXTRA Level 2 This level is suitable for students who have been learning English for two to three years. It corresponds with the Common European Framework level A2. Suitable for users of CROWN magazine. SYNOPSIS Sunnydale is a small town in California. The action centres Sunnydale High has organised an international student around the High School. Buffy and her friends are students and exchange. The first outing for the visitors is to an Inca exhibition Rupert Giles, Buffy’s Watcher or guide, is the librarian. Buffy, the at the local museum, which includes the mummy of a teenage Chosen One, has been sent to Sunnydale because the entrance girl, killed as a human sacrifice over 500 years ago. She’s to Hell – the Hellmouth – is in the basement of the school. holding a gold plate that keeps her in her sarcophagus. One The show combines comedy, tragedy, martial arts, romance Sunnydale student, Rodney, stays behind and tries to steal the and horror. The stories also deal with teenage issues of love, plate. He breaks it, releasing the mummy back to life. She then self-esteem and planning a future, and use the fights with sucks the life out of him. He dies and she gets her youth back supernatural forces as metaphors for emotional anxieties. … for a short while. Buffy finds a piece of the plate. The mummy Inca Mummy Girl is Episode 4 in Series 2. There are parallels meanwhile is now masquerading as Buffy’s exchange student, between the destinies of Ampata, the teenage mummy, and Ampata. For Xander it’s love at first sight. At the school dance, Buffy. Both were chosen without their consent and are doomed Ampata begins to age again. She knows she must destroy the to die young. The story also looks at misplaced love (Xander for plate. Back at the museum, she tries to kill Willow, but Xander Ampata) and unrequited love (Willow for Xander), against the stops her and protects his friend. Finally, Buffy destroys her. background of an exchange programme, a common experience for teenagers learning languages. THE BACK STORY With 144 episodes in 7 series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a TV MEDIA LINKS cult classic. Episode 1 was shown in March 1997 and the last episode in May 2003. Constantly shown on TV around the DVD: All the Buffy TV episodes are available on DVD/video. world, Buffy has fans and fan clubs everywhere. CD: A recording of Inca Mummy Girl is available to accompany The show takes the old idea of a strong adult man saving a the Scholastic ELT reader. feeble woman and reverses it. Here a teenage girl is the only Internet: Good starting points are www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy one with the power to save the world. In each episode, Buffy and the official website www.buffy.com. and her teenage friends (and Giles, of course) have to deal with Books: The Watcher’s Guide Volumes 1-3, the official companions terrifying enemies, including vampires, ghosts and demons. to the TV series, published by Pocket Books, are full of quotes, interviews, information, episode guides and photos. HOW TO USE YOUR SCHOLASTIC ELT MEDIA READER Choosing and motivating Using the DVD Is this the right story for your class? Do they watch Buffy the Try to get the English language version DVD of Inca Mummy Vampire Slayer? Get your class to want to read Inca Mummy Girl. Watch it yourself first to check that it is suitable for your Girl. Motivate them with background information. Read aloud class. Show it in chunks of, say, 5 minutes in parallel with the the first page of the story with dramatic atmosphere. class reading schedule, pausing at the end of a scene. Alternatively, show the whole programme after students have Organising finished the book, as a reward. Plan a class reading schedule. Decide how many pages to set for reading each week. Select exercises from the back of the Fact Files reader and extra activities from this resource sheet to go with Set these as self-study or use for whole class work. The files each chunk of reading. (All answers on page 4.) explore the Buffy series, profile Buffy star Nicholas Brendon, who plays Xander Harris, and delve into real-life Inca history. Project Glossary and casual language ideas are on page 4 of this resource sheet. Go to New Words! at the back of the reader. Translate the words with the class or get students to find meanings at home. What did they think? Introduce the informal expressions used in Inca Mummy Girl Get everyone to do a review of Inca Mummy Girl. Will they read (see Vocabulary Builder on page 3 of this resource). more Buffy stories? Will they watch Buffy on TV or DVD? Did you like it? Let us know at [email protected]. Using the CD Students can listen and follow in their books. They can listen COMPETITIONS AND UPDATES and then read. They can read and then listen. All these options Check [email protected] for competitions and other will enhance their understanding and speed up their reading. activities related to the Scholastic Buffy readers. ©Scholastic Ltd Teacher’s notes S CHOLASTIC ELT READERS RESOURCE SHEET STUDENT ACTIVITIES 2 Work with a partner. You are Buffy and Giles. Buffy wants to go to the World Culture Dance. Giles doesn’t want her to. Have INCA their conversation. 3 Find words to fill the gaps. MUMMY GIRL a) Giles needs a ………………rest and a ……………… of ……………… after talking to Buffy. –EXTRA b) Xander doesn’t want to go on a date with his ……………… c) The man with the knife is ……………… when he looks into the sarcophagus. d) Buffy wants her exchange student to ……………… the pictures on the plate. People and places e) Ampata Gutierrez dies when the mummy ……………… him. 1 Read about the people. Who would you like to be friends with? Write two names. ………………………… ………………………… Chapter 3: Welcome to our country Who wouldn’t you like to be friends with? Write two names. 1 Choose the best option. ………………………… ………………………… a) LAX is i) a bus station ii) an airport. 2 Read about the places. Write about places you know in the b) Xander can speak same way. Use an exercise book. i) some Spanish ii) a lot of Spanish iii) no Spanish. c) Buffy is surprised. She thought Ampata was Chapter 1: The Inca Room i) a boy ii) a girl. 1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Correct the false ones. d) Xander speaks i) very slowly ii) very fast to Ampata. a) Buffy and her friends are going to South America on a Cultural Exchange. F e) Ampata didn’t see much of New York because she was i) very young ii) not interested b) Cultural Exchange Week lasts two weeks. iii) in a sarcophagus in an exhibition room. c) Cordelia’s student is just an ordinary guy. Later, Buffy and Ampata talk in Buffy’s room. Ampata says d) Xander is angry that Buffy’s student is a boy and not a girl. 2 three things to Buffy that we can fully understand but Buffy can’t. e) Rodney Munsen is a very clever student. What are they? Compare your answers with a partner. f) The mummy is five hundred years old. g) Rodney leaves the museum with the other students. Chapter 4: How to eat a Twinkie h) The mummy kills Rodney. 1 Write in the correct question words. Then answer the questions in an exercise book. 2 Work with a partner. One of you is an exchange student a) …………… band is playing at the World Culture Dance? visiting the other. You meet at the airport. Have a conversation. Which …………………………………………………………………Dingoes ate my baby 3 Match the names with the descriptions. b) …………… is Cordelia’s new boyfriend? a) Ampata i) not exciting c) …………… is Willow wearing to the dance? b) Inca princess ii) Buffy’s exchange student d) …………… do they all go after their first lesson? c) Sunnydale bus station iii) 100% good-looking e) …………… lie does Buffy tell Ampata in the library? d) Rodney Bunsen iv) beautiful teenage girl f) …………… do Xander and Ampata have lunch? e) Xander v) scary with braces g) …………… does Xander eat his Twinkie? f) Sven vi) doesn’t like school work h) …………… do Xander and Ampata stop laughing? Chapter 2: Braces and a bus station 2 Match the words to make pairs. 1 Circle the mistakes. Write the correct word(s) in the spaces. all cafe a) Giles is doing exercises in the library. ……………Buffy Incan school American friend b) Xander wants to go to the dance with just Willow. …………… girl archaeology mummy guard c) The police are looking for the mummy. …………… exchange student body club d) The mummy in the sarcophagus is wearing glasses. …………… e) Ampata Gutierrez has been to the USA before. …………… ©Scholastic Ltd Photocopiable S CHOLASTIC ELT READERS RESOURCE SHEET STUDENT ACTIVITIES Chapter 5: ‘I choose life’ FINAL TASKS 1 Choose the right word for each sentence. 1 You are going on an exchange trip. You take some photos of your life to show your host family. What will your photos be of? after finally for just then when while Make a list. Show it to other students. 2 An exchange student is coming to stay with you. Plan a a) Buffy and Willow have been in the library ………………for hours. weekend for them: eating, sightseeing, meeting people, and so on. b) ……………… Giles comes in, he says ‘Good work!’ to Buffy.